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> It depends on if it was damaged unloading from the car.  My dad worked at
> the port of boston for a company that received VW's from the container
> ships, you would not believe the abuse the cars get when being unloaded.
> Neutral drops, burning rubber all the way up the ramp out of the ship, you
> name it they do it there.  And the worst thing, NO ONE can do ANYTHING about
> it.

I have also watched it at the port of Felixstowe in the UK.  Now a
freight-only port, it used to be my preferred route to the Continent.
The midnight sailing took seven hours - ideal for driving to the ferry
in the evening and then driving on to Germany at daybreak.

While waiting to board, we often watched cars built in Germany, Holland
and Belgium being unloaded from Ro-Ro ferries.  A minibus would take
12 drivers aboard.  Minutes later 12 cars would emerge from the ferry
and roar at redline in whatever gear to the pound.  The minibus would
follow, and the drivers would then be taken back to the ship to repeat
the ritual.  Scream, scream, scream.

Audi took positive action to minimise this abuse by fitting constrictors
in the fuel delivery systems on many cars.  The delivering dealer was
supposed to remove the constrictor during the pre-delivery service, but
some failed to do so and I've collected half a dozen over the last few
years.

Typically it's a banjo bolt with a standard hex head used to attach the
main fuel feed line to the metering head.  They're very distinctive -
they have a raised circular centre portion on the bolt head.  If you
wind the things out, they have a plastic mesh screen in each side
port and a very small axial fuel delivery hole.  The bolt that is
supposed to replace them has no screens and no constriction.

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